Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy

Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy And Friends recently announced a 2025 UK tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.’s iconic 1985 album, Fables of the Reconstruction. After the pair’s acclaimed, sold out run honouring R.E.M.’s famed debut album Murmur, which saw the four original members of R.E.M. come together for the first time in 17 years at the tour’s Athens stop in the US, the Fables tour will bring Shannon & Narducy together again for a run of very special live performances in the UK.

Ted Leo will be joining on bass guitar, completing a line-up that also boasts Jon Wurster (drums), Dag Juhlin (guitar), and Vijay Tellis-Nayak (keyboards). The celebrated New Jersey songwriter, and frontman of the beloved Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, was recently announced as guitarist in Gang of Four.